There are more than two dozens words to describe different kinds of rain in English, and we had all of them last week at PMRPC. Every day. For about eight days straight. Their were pools of water everywhere and the ranges were so wet that we cancelled all the other weekend events. But the smallbore range was strangely dry, and we have a 100-foot canopy over the firing line, and a separate one over the registration area and Connex. So Improvise, Adapt and Overcome, all systems go.....
We lost some shooters because of the rain, but they don't know what they missed. A dozen showed up and rocked the COF and history all weekend. A couple of repeat made the score -- Marian on the first day with a 232. She came back the next day and shot score again several times, including a 238 and a 219. James worked all weekend, slowly climbing from 160, to 180, to 190, to 212 to 228. Two other shooters were consistently shooting in the 180s-190s and will certainly make it at a future seed. And all of our shooters made huge progress, even though they struggled with equipment problems like mismounted scopes and stocks that didn't fit. We also had five shooters fill ot the paperwork to get their own Garands.
Yep, it rained all weekend, but we were dry under the canopy. And when it was raining too hard to change targets, we told the history. We got one AQT in on Saturday, and six in on Sunday, and lit the fire of liberty in a dozen of our countrymen.
Blinddog made a video of the weekend....
https://youtu.be/WhR_57jd61E